Health care reform must encompass changes in coverage and financing with an emphasis on preventive care and effective coordination of services, said former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and former Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt. Appearing at a National Press Club forum June 2, sponsored by the nonpartisan AmericaSpeakOn.org, the two differed, however, on what the extent of the government’s role should be.
Rationing of care already occurs through inadequate insurance, the restrictions imposed in having a preexisting condition, and the inability to join a group health plan, Daschle noted. Access to necessary care in most other industrialized countries statistically is better than in the United States, he added. But access there to elective care is not as good as in the United States.
Acknowledging a departure from some in his own party, Leavitt, previously the Republican governor of Utah, said the market alone isn’t the answer in health care because an unstructured and unorganized market won’t resolve the problems in and of itself. “But I do think government can organize a marketplace where those decisions can be made,” he said.
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